Put the bike together last night, so this morning I’m taking the plunge and making my first journey to work.<\/p>\n
How hard could it be? I used to ride for miles when I was a kid.<\/p>\n
I’d allowed an hour to get to work, about a 4 mile journey by car I elected to take a slightly longer but flatter route to work.<\/p>\n
By the end of the street my legs were on fire, but at least I’d managed to get the infernal thing going in a straight line. The downhill bit was easy, but the first climb to the beginning of the country lane winded me within seconds!<\/p>\n
Oh well, push the bike for a little bit and on to the flat lane. No problem until I come to one of those weird barriers they put up, only way through was to get off and push the bike through on it’s back wheel.<\/p>\n
The next bit looked perfectly flat to me, however the bike (and my legs) obviously didn’t think so. After a couple of stops I made it to a nice downhill stretch, I knew there was a hill at the other side, but build up a bit of speed and hopefully I could get a start on it.<\/p>\n
Oh no, some sadist has decided to put another gate right at the bottom of the dip forcing cyclists to get off and start the climb from a standstill \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
I ended up walking most of the way to work, pushing the bike and took an hour and a half \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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